-NEXT MORNING-
Jin-Hyuk just got up from the bed and was headed towards the bathroom . He got fresh as he ate breakfast and he was ready to live another day in his usual self .
As soon as he got ready he took up his phone and searched through raids available for him today. He searched for through the website for 10 minutes or so before his eyes got stuck on one of the raids. It was an A-Rank gate and it was a raid conducted by the Dawn Guild . He clicked on the information button and studied the details of the raid .
The raid today was carried on by team 1 of the Dawn Guild .
"Isn't that the team with Cha Seol-Ah as her captain ?" Jin-Hyuk mumbled
"Hmm , let's see how strong she is as the captain"
Jin-Hyuk accepted the job in the raid and it was the job of a porter . He has to carry all the extra stuff of the raid team . It was the position given to the most lowest rank hunter of the raid group .
"Let's go to the dungeon"
-One Hour Later-
-IN FRONT OF THE A-RANK GATE-
Jin-Hyuk arrived at the gate and stood there waiting for the raid team .
After some time the Raid Team 1 of the Dawn Guild arrived in the location . As soon as the car stopped and the team members got down , they were surrounded by the reporters espaicially Cha Seol-Ah .
Jin-Hyuk heard her name for the many times in news but he saw her today first time in his entire lifetime . She was a pretty , young girl about the same age as Jin-Hyuk i.e. she was at high school 3rd year when she became a hunter .
The first thought which came to Jin-Hyuk's mind is about the stats of this girl .
-Ti-ting
-[Skill : Eye Of Gluttony (SSS)] activated
-NAME : CHA SEOL-AH
-RACE : HUMAN
-RANK : S
-SKILLS : Speed Of God (SSS)
Sky Soaring Sword (SSS)
Eyes Of God (EX)
Blessing Of Light (SS)
Mandala (SS)
Holy Blade Of Light (SSS)
Super Regeneration (SS)
Ice Formation (SSS)
Judgement Of Light(SS)
Holy Shield (SS)
Hmm , she is pretty strong . Her skills are comparable to mine . I have to make her an ally , she can be useful in the future .
All the team members then came towards Jin-Hyuk as a hunter of the team started to speak with him
"Ah , Hello I am Kang Lim . I am the vice captain of the raid team and she right there is the captain of the team and the only S-Rank in this team Ms . Cha Seol-Ah"
"My name is Kim Dongsoo . I applied for the job of a porter in today's raid . I am a B-Rank Hunter ."
"Woah , you are B-Rank ? I didn't except someone this strong to be the porter"
"Yeah , but still I am weaker in comparison to A-Ranks like you "
"But I don't think so " A new female voice was heard . Both the vice captain and Jin-Hyuk looked towards Cha Seol-Ah
"Wh-What do you mean ?" Jin-Hyuk asked nervously.
"I meant what I said . Even though you are telling yourself to be B-Rank . You possess the aura of an S-Ranker . I know you didn't meet many S-Ranks yet but all S-Ranks have the natural perception to see the aura of a hunter " .
"Haha , I don't exactly know what you mean ? But I indeed am an B-Rank "
"Well , if u want to continue to play the act , go on but please don't force me to buy it "
Jin-Hyuk was in a bit of surprise after hearing those words .
Strange , I am certain I am surpressing my aura to match that of a B-Rank Hunter but how did she know ? I don't have any idea . But one thing I know for sure . She is strong , even though weaker than me but she can't easily put up a fair fight against me .
As Jin-Hyuk was thinking these things he heard the voice of the vice captain .
"Everyone , we are about to enter the dungeon . Maintain formation even after entering ."
Everyone in the raid group formed a formation with tanker in front , dealers in middle and mages at last . And at the last of the group after the mages stood Jin-Hyuk .
"Enter the gate "
Everyone in the raid team entered the gate as they met with the gloomy , dark and dense atmosphere of a cave inside the dungeon .
"Maintain formation" the vice-captain mentioned again
The group started to move deep towards the cave . They heard growling sounds all over the place . Then to everyones surprise a monster jumped on the team from above only to be slashed even before anyone could react .
Everyone saw the slashing but couldn't figure out the slasher . But that was not the case with Jin-Hyuk . He clearly saw Cha Seol-Ah took out her longsword and slashing the monster so fast that it was unable to be seen by anyone . Jin-Hyuk slightly smiled subconciously .
"The monster was a high-orc" the vice-captain said
"But that's kinda impossible . It was a A-Rank dungeon but the first monster appearing is an A-Rank magic beast ?" One of the mages said
"Yeah , its kinda suspicious . I mean , A-Rank dungeons have monsters mix with B-Rank and A-Rank . A-Rank monsters usually appear as the leader of a group of B-Rank monsters but its strange " .
-[Skill : Eye of Gluttony(SSS)] activated
Jin-Hyuk saw through the information of the orc but he was surprised to see the results
-NAME : RAKA
-RACE : ORC (TEMPORARY HIGH ORC)
-RANK : A-RANK (B-RANK originally)
-SKILLS : RAGE (RANK : B)
-STATUS : CURSED (DEAD)
Jin-Hyuk was confused a little as to who can curse a orc in a dungeon . It cannot be a work of a human . It had to be a beast , but if it's a beast then it was bad news , but Jin-Hyuk still decided to keep his mouth shut to only reveal the information when necessary .
"Let's move" Cha Seol-Ah said
Everyone got back into their formation and started to go deeper into the dungeon .
As they were entering deeper all the hunters saw some really suspicious evidences . The B-Rank wolf monsters found commonly in these dungeons were dead . The cause of there deaths was unclear but what was clear was that these actions were caused by the orcs because the corpes of the wolfs were torn apart from the middle which can only be done by the orcs .
"But why will the orcs do this ?"
"Yeah , I mean the beasts are not on peaceful terms with each other but it was unlikely that those beasts would devour other beasts weaker than them"
"This is extremely confusing "
As everyone was confused and mumbling among themselves he saw Cha Seol-Ah to gather evidences on the attacks and the way of her actions , her slight temper and clear judgement made it clear that she can control her sense of reason even in critical situations .
They all saved their breathes after a discussion of couple of minutes that they will definetely clear the dungeon but they will gather evidences to report back to the association for furthur investigation .
They arrived at the boss lair .
As soon as they entered the door behind them closed and all lights glew up and to their shock the room was full of high orcs . There was atleast a thousand or ten-thousand of them and in the middle was the boss . An high orc but was on clearly different level compared to other high orcs . He had four chief subordinates who were stronger than high orcs but weaker than the boss .
Jin-Hyuk activated his skill for thorough check-up .
-Ti-ting
-[Skill cannot be activated due to curse casted]
-Ti-ting
-[Proceeding to break curse]
-[Successful]
-[You can now use skills]
-[You gained a new skill "Curse Resistance (SS)"]
-[Skill info:]
-Curse Resistance
-Acquisition Difficulty : SS
-You are now immune to all types of curses and poisons in the world .
You are also immune to any diseases
Hmm it made me a benefit to try and use skill here . But it told me that I cannot use skills so that should mean that even they can't use skill . This is bad . No matter how strong the hunter may be they can't reach their full potential if they don't use skills .
Cha Seol-Ah was still looking calm unaware of the fact that none of her skills would work here. As soon as they started to travel towards the boss , he opened his red eyes and started to talk .
"Haha , Stupid Humans , you dare try to enter my territory without my permission . But no matter what you do u can't win . I am gonna kill one human at a time to entertain my subordinates ."
Everyone was panicking except for Cha Seol-Ah and Jin-Hyuk . He was standing unphased as his hair covered his eyes in dark as he was looking at the boss with rage . He still supressed his mana so he was still B-Rank in normal eyes .
Cha Seol-Ah took out her sword as she tried to activate her skill . But , first time it caught Cha Seol-Ah off guard . She was unable to activate her skills .
"I am unable to activate any skills" She exclaimed
This news filled the team in more despair . They all tried to activate their skills but were unable to . That's when they heard a laugh
"Bwahahaha , sorry puny humans but you see I casted a curse that whoever enters the room other than orcs will have their skills locked . But I can use skills , so remember your last words humans "
Cha Seol-Ah was visibly shaken for the first time . She said
"Everyone , run away . I am keeping this bastard busy "
"What ? You thought I will let you off so easily "
"Hymn of Fire Dragon"
As soon as the beast said that a huge ball of fire rushed towards the team and landed a blast .
"Hahaha , this is what u get for being arrogant"
But as the smoke cleared everyone saw a huge piece of ice was guarding the front as the fire ball dissipated . Everyone was clearly taken aback .
Then a voice was heard from the back . It was Jin-Hyuk . The whole team and the boss was watching him . He wasn't supressing its aura now so they all realised how powerful he actually was . He was stronger that Cha Seol-Ah was what came into everyone's minds.
"I didn't expect that I had to use my real identity in this raid "
Jin-Hyuk slowly opened the mask he was wearing . As soon as he opened his mask everyone left a gasp .
"Isn't he Sung Jin-Hyuk ? Who awakened as Korea's 10th S-Rank not too long ago ?"
"Yeah , but why did he take the job of a porter despite being an S-Rank ?"
"Let's save the talks for later " Jin-Hyuk said
"We need to defeat the boss first . As you all can't use any skills , hide behind my back and leave the rest to me "
"Hah!!!! Human , How did u use skills here?"
Jin-Hyuk replied calmly .
"Is there really any use after knowing that ? You are gonna die and this is all u care about "
"Don't think this is over human "
"Hymn Of Fire Dragon"
-Ti-ting
-[Skill : Glacier Formation (EX)] activated
A huge boulder of ice was formed neutralising the fire .
The boss then commanded four of the generals to attack Jin-Hyuk but he was fast as he moved to the sides when the generals jumped over him . The other two also jumped on Jin-Hyuk but Jin-Hyuk was prepared
-Ti-ting
-[Skill : Commander's Authority (EX)] activated
-[Skill info :]
-Commander's Authority
-Acquisition Difficulty : EX
-You can move anything from with telekenisis .
No mana required
Jin-Hyuk grabbed all the generals with his skill and threw them off and they got crashed in the walls of the structure . The boss was clearly angry as he suddenly commanded each and every orc to rush towards Jin-Hyuk .
Jin-Hyuk saw the scene and gave a small smile
-Ti-ting
-[Skill : HellFlame (EX)] activated]
Jin-Hyuk activated his skill as he gathered the bluish purple flame on his hands and shot it towards the orcs as a laser . All the orcs burned unable to survive in the intense heat . On the other hand , the raid team was in complete shock from the scene before their eyes . Even Cha Seol-Ah was also smiling .
The boss was enraged as dark red mana started leaking out from its body. His body began to change as he grew bigger . His eyes became bright red and sclera became black as he said
"Sorry for underestimating u human"
" I will acknowledge u as a real threat now "
"Hymn of Fire Breath"
The flame rushed towards Jin-Hyuk but it was so fast that he didn't get time to activate his ice skill . The flame rushed over Jin-Hyuk
"Feel the pain of being burnt to a crisp human "
As the flame dissipated , everyone saw Jin-Hyuk in a bad condition where his body was almost completely burnt . But to everyone's surprise Jin-Hyuk was smiling even in that condition
-Ti-ting
-[Skill : Infinite Regeneration(SSS)]activated
Jin-Hyuk's body was clearly being healed at an incredible rate . After about 10 seconds , his body returned to its normal condition . This was clearly unexpected by everyone other than Cha Seol-Ah . She wasn't surprised as she also had a regeneration skill but she was surprised by the speed of his recovery .
"Do you have any more tricks ?" Jin-Hyuk asked
"If not then I am bored . Let's end this
-Ti-ting
-[Skill : Grave of Swords(SSS)] activated
-[Skill : Sword Demon King's Steps (SSS)] activated
-[Skill info: ]
-Sword Demon King's Steps
-Acquisition Difficulty : SSS
-Increases your speed by 80%, you can leave an afterimage of yourself .
Jin-Hyuk rushed towards the boss in a speed greater than lightning and slashed through one of its arm even before it could react to the speed . Jin-Hyuk again jumped and slashed the boss through all the directions and finally dividing him into hundred pieces .